Legion – Chapter 8 – Facing Your Demons

What a crazy trippy trip it’s been, but alas, it’s come to an end. Actually the show got less weird as it went along, which was kind of nice because I had serious doubt going into things. There doesn’t seem like there was a lot of wasted potential though, for as much filler there was in the series. Like Ptonomy, who started off kind of important and interesting but did nothing and served no purpose during the latter half of the series. Also, is every one’s mutant power some sort of psychic ability? That feels a little boring. Then there was the squandered The Eye character who didn’t really do much besides act menacing.

I’m a little torn on the climactic series finale here. We got the return of the Interrogator from the first episode, assumed dead, though he didn’t really do much aside from hang around in an interrogation room. He did get a nice little story to flesh him out a bit and provide motivation for Division, basically, humans scared of mutants, whom they see as gods. The hero is the villain in another person’s story, and visa versa. He seems like he’s willing to work with our heroes some, which will probably come up more during the second season. I also particularly loved the moment at the start where David effortlessly dealt with the Division soldiers and poor Clark realizes he is completely out matched.

Then there is the resolution of The Shadow King sub plot, or at least as far as David is concerned. We see Syd use her powers again, to extract Farouk from David, unfortunately Farouk takes control of Syd then jumps into Kerry. Farouk uses Kerry’s physical prowess to dispatch the rest of our heroes before a brief psychic showdown with David.

The end result sets up the next season, during the encounter the Shadow King is ejected from Kerry and into Oliver. In the ensuing chaos, Oliver and Farouk escape in a fancy sports car.

There’s also a goofy “mid credits” scene where David gets taken away in what everyone is calling a Pokeball, which is the best description for it really. The ball is probably sent by Division, there was a brief moment when Division mentioned deploying.. something, unclear.

This episode was a nice wrap up to the current arc, and a good set up for the future. I think what will be real interesting is to see how the characters evolve in Season 2. Particularly David. It’s still not clear if his Schizophrenia was part of Farouk or if he really is Schizophrenic. At this point it does seem as thought hey aren’t quite following the angle from the comics of absorbed souls or whatever,

Speaking of the comics, and this could be a spoiler, but there wasn’t a Patrick Stewart cameo like I’d hoped. I feel like they could have managed to get him for a brief scene if they wanted to. Maybe they are saving that for Season 2.